Pritchard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Hoke v. Commonwealth (1989), 2 Va. App. 590 - Jordan v. Commonwealth (1986)
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mason v. Commonwealth · 53 Okla. Crim. 259 - Kernell v. State · Williams v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he owner of personal property may deliver it to another upon conditions, or in circumstances, which give the recipient bare custody of the property. Constructive possession remains in the owner.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winston v. Com. · McMorris v. Com.“The violence or intimidation that is an essential ingredient of robbery must precede or be concomitant with the taking”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.